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'If your friend is running a marathon for charity and has posted that
information publicly, you can help that friend by promoting their post
to all of your friends,' Facebook wrote in the release. 'Or if your
friend is renting their apartment out and she tells her friends on
Facebook, you can share the post with the people you and your friend
have in common so that it shows up higher in news feed and more people
notice it.'

Cash grab: Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg has sought new ways to entice users to spend on Facebook since announcing the company would become a public stock

In the year since Facebook announced it would become a public stock, the network has rolled out numerous features to entice users to buy things from the social network.

The Facebook Card, paid messages, and Facebook Gifts are just some of the moves it's made to get users shopping on the site.

So far, however, nonehas proved to be significantly profitable.

For now Facebook will have to wait and see if users are willing to shell out cash to get their friend's posts to more eyes, or if they'll just do it the free and old-fashioned way by posting re-posting them on their own news feeds.